754

Summary

Year 754 (DCCLIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 754th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 754th year of the 1st millennium, the 54th year of the 8th century, and the 5th year of the 750s decade. The denomination 754 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Millennium: 1st millennium
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754 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar754
DCCLIV
Ab urbe condita1507
Armenian calendar203
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Assyrian calendar5504
Balinese saka calendar675–676
Bengali calendar161
Berber calendar1704
Buddhist calendar1298
Burmese calendar116
Byzantine calendar6262–6263
Chinese calendar癸巳年 (Water Snake)
3451 or 3244
    — to —
甲午年 (Wood Horse)
3452 or 3245
Coptic calendar470–471
Discordian calendar1920
Ethiopian calendar746–747
Hebrew calendar4514–4515
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat810–811
 - Shaka Samvat675–676
 - Kali Yuga3854–3855
Holocene calendar10754
Iranian calendar132–133
Islamic calendar136–137
Japanese calendarTenpyō-shōhō 6
(天平勝宝6年)
Javanese calendar648–649
Julian calendar754
DCCLIV
Korean calendar3087
Minguo calendar1158 before ROC
民前1158年
Nanakshahi calendar−714
Seleucid era1065/1066 AG
Thai solar calendar1296–1297
Tibetan calendar阴水蛇年
(female Water-Snake)
880 or 499 or −273
    — to —
阳木马年
(male Wood-Horse)
881 or 500 or −272
The Iconoclasts, by Domenico Morelli

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Abbasid Caliphate edit

 
Abbasid caliph al-Mansur (r. 754–775)

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  • Jianzhen, Chinese Buddhist monk, arrives in Nara, where he is welcomed by former emperor Shōmu and empress Kōmyō. During his visit Jianzhen introduces sugar to the Japanese court, using it to mask the flavors of foul-tasting herbal tea.
  • A Tang census shows that 75% of the Chinese live north of the Chang Jiang (Yangtze) River. The capital of Chang'an has a population of 2 million and more than 25 other cities have well over 500,000 citizens (approximate date).

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Boniface

References edit

  1. ^ Kazhdan (1991), p. 1600
  2. ^ Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). "Pope Stephen II". The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Vol. 1. New York: Oxford University Press.